Currently 70 degrees in Pittsburgh, and some idiot on my facebook page is going on and on how excited she is that its hoddie weather. She is probably the same person that puts shorts and a tank top on in March when it hits 50.

Billboard advertisements for jewelry companies that feature watches that only a millionaire could reasonably afford. For example, on the way back from getting my hair cut in Oakland today, I passed a billboard for Orr’s Jewelers on Fifth Avenue that featured a Patek Philippe wristwatch. Pateks are some of the most expensive watches in the world, and looking up that particular model it has a list price of nearly $90,000. Now, I’m sure there are people in Pittsburgh who can afford to drop $90 grand on a watch, but are those people going to be influenced by roadside billboards?

Shyster wrote:Billboard advertisements for jewelry companies that feature watches that only a millionaire could reasonably afford. For example, on the way back from getting my hair cut in Oakland today, I passed a billboard for Orr’s Jewelers on Fifth Avenue that featured a Patek Philippe wristwatch. Pateks are some of the most expensive watches in the world, and looking up that particular model it has a list price of nearly $90,000. Now, I’m sure there are people in Pittsburgh who can afford to drop $90 grand on a watch, but are those people going to be influenced by roadside billboards?

Shyster wrote:Billboard advertisements for jewelry companies that feature watches that only a millionaire could reasonably afford. For example, on the way back from getting my hair cut in Oakland today, I passed a billboard for Orr’s Jewelers on Fifth Avenue that featured a Patek Philippe wristwatch. Pateks are some of the most expensive watches in the world, and looking up that particular model it has a list price of nearly $90,000. Now, I’m sure there are people in Pittsburgh who can afford to drop $90 grand on a watch, but are those people going to be influenced by roadside billboards?

Shyster wrote:Billboard advertisements for jewelry companies that feature watches that only a millionaire could reasonably afford. For example, on the way back from getting my hair cut in Oakland today, I passed a billboard for Orr’s Jewelers on Fifth Avenue that featured a Patek Philippe wristwatch. Pateks are some of the most expensive watches in the world, and looking up that particular model it has a list price of nearly $90,000. Now, I’m sure there are people in Pittsburgh who can afford to drop $90 grand on a watch, but are those people going to be influenced by roadside billboards?

Billboards aren't necessarily to drive an action, in this case being purchase. They are more just to place the name out there so that when a potential consumer is considering purchasing a watch, the name Patek will likely be in their mind.

Rylan wrote:Billboards aren't necessarily to drive an action, in this case being purchase. They are more just to place the name out there so that when a potential consumer is considering purchasing a watch, the name Patek will likely be in their mind.

The absolute cheapest, most basic Patek Philippe runs about $9,000 (the most expensive ones cost more than $200,000). They actually makes Rolexes look like bargain-bin watches. What percentage of people can even afford to drop $9,000 on a cheap one? I sure as heck can't. (Although I must admit that if the item in question were, say, a Krieghoff K-80 competition shotgun, I could probably rationalize that cost).

Shyster wrote:Billboard advertisements for jewelry companies that feature watches that only a millionaire could reasonably afford. For example, on the way back from getting my hair cut in Oakland today, I passed a billboard for Orr’s Jewelers on Fifth Avenue that featured a Patek Philippe wristwatch. Pateks are some of the most expensive watches in the world, and looking up that particular model it has a list price of nearly $90,000. Now, I’m sure there are people in Pittsburgh who can afford to drop $90 grand on a watch, but are those people going to be influenced by roadside billboards?

Rylan wrote:Billboards aren't necessarily to drive an action, in this case being purchase. They are more just to place the name out there so that when a potential consumer is considering purchasing a watch, the name Patek will likely be in their mind.

The absolute cheapest, most basic Patek Philippe runs about $9,000 (the most expensive ones cost more than $200,000). They actually makes Rolexes look like bargain-bin watches. What percentage of people can even afford to drop $9,000 on a cheap one? I sure as heck can't. (Although I must admit that if the item in question were, say, a Krieghoff K-80 competition shotgun, I could probably rationalize that cost).

Hey, I did say more than $200,000. In fact, I found a version of the watch in your Ebay link that comes with two more sub-faces showing day and month that retails for $1.1 million. That’ll show all the guys down at the country club, eh?*

*Unless maybe the country club in question is Augusta National and the “guys” are Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

Rylan wrote:Billboards aren't necessarily to drive an action, in this case being purchase. They are more just to place the name out there so that when a potential consumer is considering purchasing a watch, the name Patek will likely be in their mind.

The absolute cheapest, most basic Patek Philippe runs about $9,000 (the most expensive ones cost more than $200,000). They actually makes Rolexes look like bargain-bin watches. What percentage of people can even afford to drop $9,000 on a cheap one? I sure as heck can't. (Although I must admit that if the item in question were, say, a Krieghoff K-80 competition shotgun, I could probably rationalize that cost).

Does anybody have a thing with falling asleep while laying down for a few minutes? Been happening to me lately. I want to lay down for 10 minutes just to regain some strength to finish what I'm doing, lets say around 11 or midnight and - boom - I wake up at 7am in my clothes and with contacts in my eyes. It's pretty annoying. Not even having brushed teeth before 'sleep'... yuck.

Sarcastic wrote:Does anybody have a thing with falling asleep while laying down for a few minutes? Been happening to me lately. I want to lay down for 10 minutes just to regain some strength to finish what I'm doing, lets say around 11 or midnight and - boom - I wake up at 7am in my clothes and with contacts in my eyes. It's pretty annoying. Not even having brushed teeth before 'sleep'... yuck.

Thank god. I thought I was on my way out or something. But seriously, it never used to occur to me, just falling asleep like that. Just recently. Good thing is... I lay down and go to sleep. No problemo. Some people need 3 hours to fall asleep.

People who pull all the way through the stop bar at either a stop sign or traffic light and end up in the crosswalk or they're pulled so far forward that it's difficult for traffic to get around them. This especialy annoys me when I ride my bike at South Park

When you're driving on a main road and a light changes, then no one turns off of the side street. WTH did it change in the first place if no one was turning.